Please to send PM with particulars... between loss of imperious cousin Mo, Tragic loss of Dear Leader Kim, and temporary exile of Fist of Doom, in addition of replacement of Detonators "loaned" to aligned playa condemners has been busy time in Borderless Empire of Apokiliptika... we are just now beginning the ramp-up process to bring Annihilation to celebrate current Burning Man 2012, "Doom of Themes"...

We shall certainly look forward to communique, and gladly welcome all DEDICATED workers to the cause... please to read interesting web presence at www.apokiliptika.com for some particulars (please to note, due to continued EMP events update on some sections are delayed until can be relayed through DOOMStar satellite uplink, but most information can be considered reliable.

theCryptofishist wrote:I just think it's sad that those two were too young to have been in the Young Pioneers. Can you imagine?

I think they are Pioneers...I think they were not canceled.

I think that you're right about them being in the Pioneers. As for the Young Pioneers being canceled, no they were not canceled, they still exist and are run by local communist parties in Russia and have even gained a lot of support in China. (One of my friends, Mishka, is an exchange student from Russia and he was part of them when she was younger.... and here's a semi-current, 2009, article talking about them http://www.upi.com/Top_News/2009/05/17/Russias-Young-Pioneers-sign-up-3000/UPI-20201242604752/.) Also, I have no clue what they're saying, but it's kinda catchy.

@MisaBlue Those things look absolutely amazing... now if only I had extra money to spend.

JDCookMS wrote: Also, I have no clue what they're saying, but it's kinda catchy.

Oh, I know what they are singing. It's Katuisha, from the late 1930s. It's the one the rockets were named after. I actually have an obsession--well maybe an over-interest--in it. I must have at least 8 versions on my ipod. I could certainly post more from u-tube. It is, in its way, classically Russian. It starts off with the girl ("Katy" or "Little Katy") on the bank of a river, surrounded by birch trees, reading a letter from her boyfriend who's off in the war...(No, I don't speak Russian. This is just so...look, I'm not sure, but this may have been on the version of Tetris I had 20+ years ago. At any rate, this just gets under my skin, so I guess I check on the lyrics often enough for some of it to sink in.)

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